Category Archives for "Leadership"
Leadership research articles, posts and research briefings. This category provides briefings and resources aimed at helping to improve leadership activity and practice in organisations.
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Passive and Active Diversity in Inclusive Leadership – The Research
Despite the efforts of scholars, diversity professionals and policymakers over the past century, structural inequalities still exist that disadvantage black, indigenous, people of colour (BIPOC) and women. These often unseen barriers are present throughout society, including in private and public organisations. New research has looked at the impact of passive and active forms of diversity […]
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What is the Criteria for Assessing Ambidextrous Leadership?
In this podcast David talks with Jan Laser who is a HR Business Partner in an Organisation in Hamburg, Germany. Jan publishes academic papers whilst not being employed as an academic. In this podcast, Jan and David talk about publishing papers as a non-academic independant researcher and about his latest paper ‘Criteria to appraise top […]
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How New Leaders Emerge and Form Their Identity
In order to grow and maintain their performance organisations need to produce new leaders on a fairly consistent basis. As less experienced team members step into key roles and form their identities as leaders, they are essentially going through a process of self-discovery. Leadership identity develops as individuals step into the leadership role, and that […]
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Why Leadership Development Courses Do More Harm Than Good
Leadership development programmes are probably one of the most popular forms of development for aspiring and active leaders. Their aim is to make leaders more conscious of the impact they can have and equip them with the tools of leadership. A recent study examining the impact these programmes have has discovered that the programmes may […]
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The problem with transformational leadership – new research
A lot of organisational change research over the last 20 to 30 years has focused on issues around transformational leadership and the ability of transformational leaders to have a positive impact on organisational culture to effect organisational change. However when transformational leaders meet cynicism… (This research briefing was sent to members in 2019) Variable outcomes […]
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The 8 primary features of practical leadership and management wisdom
Introduction Wisdom isn’t the most popular subject in organisations, in leadership and management development programmes or in research circles. Part of the problem is that many people see wisdom as some abstract unobtainable concept that has few practical outcomes. This view is probably a mistake. The research numbers Just a quick look at the number […]
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The four dilemmas of strategic timing
Having a good strategy is not enough. Like telling a good joke, strategy implementation success often hinges on timing. A new study has found that there are four primary dilemmas that leaders and managers need to face around strategic timing… Contents Getting the timing right Poor strategic timing A new study – the four dilemmas […]
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There are too many leadership concepts… but which ones are redundant?
The sheer number of leadership concepts is creating confusion and just trying to keep up with new notions of leadership is a full time job. As a result there is a lot of confusion and overlap between leadership concepts, the variety of different styles, traits, behaviours and other ideas that proliferate in the leadership literature. Explosion […]
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Podcast: Developing Practical Leadership and Management Wisdom
Developing practical leadership and management wisdom : Research review with Sarah Smith In this episode we look at a research briefing around the topic of developing practical leadership and management wisdom Subscribe to the Oxford Review Podcast here Download the associated research briefing – The 8 primary features of practical leadership and management wisdom – Here […]
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CEO background and impact on performance – live resource
What does the current research say about the characteristics of successful CEOs Members only Watching brief Updated 2nd October 2018 Keywords: Leadership, management, CEO, CEO characteristic, CEO background, performance, organisational performance Introduction Recruiting new CEOs Educational background of CEOs The impact of organisational ownership The impact of entrepreneurial CEOs International outlook Use of social media […]
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